Agile An Executive Guide

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

My continued thanks to the pioneers and thought leaders of the Agile world, most notably Kent Beck, Martin Fowler, Alistair Cockburn, Jeff Sutherland, Mike Cohn, Ken Schwaber and Jim Highsmith, for their passionate work in developing and refining Agile methods over the past two decades.

Thanks also to the small and large organizations worldwide that have allowed their experiences in using Agile to be shared with others, including Nokia Siemens Networks™, Yahoo!™, Google™, Microsoft™ and BT™.

Special thanks to Vicki Utting and Angela Wilde of IT Governance Publishing, Neil Salkind of the Salkind Literary Agency, Stacey Czarnowski of Studio B and Liz Gill at LCI Proofreading & Editing Services for their ongoing support and sage ...